Africa-Press – Botswana. Botswana plans to slaughter nearly 10,000 cattle to try to contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, the deputy minister of Agriculture announced this Monday.
“The number of infected cattle is constantly increasing”, argued the deputy minister of Agriculture, Molebatsi Molebatsi, to the French news agency France-Press (AFP), reporting the decision to slaughter 9,757 head of cattle.
The first major outbreak in two years forced this southern African country to suspend all beef exports on August 24, of which about half, equivalent to 9,000 tonnes a year, are destined for the European Union.
Foot-and-mouth disease is a serious and highly contagious viral disease of livestock.
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